docs: def commit_new_version(version: str):
      """
      Commits the file containing the version number variable with the version number as the commit
      message.
  
      :param version: The version number to be used in the commit message.
      """
  
      check_repo()
      commit_message = config.get('semantic_release', 'commit_message')
      message = '{0}\n\n{1}'.format(version, commit_message)
      repo.git.add(config.get('semantic_release', 'version_variable').split(':')[0])
      return repo.git.commit(m=message, author="semantic-release <semantic-release>")